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LibreOffice 3.5 Released
First time accepted submitter wrldwzrd89 writes "The Document Foundation, the team behind the free and open-source office suite called LibreOffice, has released their latest and greatest version. As is typical with major releases of LibreOffice, there are significant new features making their debut in this version. The component with the biggest upgrade is Calc, which now has support for up to 10,000 sheets per workbook among its new features. Also noteworthy among the new features is support for importing Microsoft Visio files in Impress and Draw. The full feature list is available in a PDF hosted on Dropbox; LibreOffice itself can be downloaded here."
Great, a major LO upgrade. That means I download it, install it, and see how many minutes it takes me before I hit a large enough Office compatibility snag that makes me delete it and swear off giving it another shot.
Don't get me wrong -- I would LOVE to have a viable alternative to MS Office, and would gladly pay the price of Office for such a package, if only to promote it and piss off MS at the same time. I've been using MS's software as long as they've been in existence, and Office has to be one of the most useful and utterly frustrating of their products. But OO/LO simply aren't (yet) viable full-time replacements for everyone.
What a bullshit post yours and the many others that think like you man.
LibreOffice or any other office package is NEVER going to have 100% microsoft office compatibility. How the fucking hard is this to understand ?
So if you want a 100% free microsoft office just download a warez version and be done with it. Otherwise use LO for its strengths such as the open document format. Gosh you can even make pdfs and send them with no problem and this should be the preferable solution when your recipient doesn't need to edit your document.
I take it you don't develop software, then?